Click Here to Read: Homer C. Curtis, 96, psychoanalyst and teacher By Bonnie L. Cook in the Philadelphia Inquiry on June 17, 2013.
Nostalgia: Orwell, Koestler, Kafka, Hollywood & Hitler, Lidice from Sasha Rolde on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
Dear Colleagues,
Fresh from the APSaA meeting in Washington, DC, the beat goes on and the international psychoanalytic website “that never sleeps” is again full of interesting posts which I will outline below.
My suggestions this week are:
1) though perhaps I should not have been, I was taken aback by the post on “British Girls in the 3rd Reich”:
“In the 1930s, many English families sent their daughters to finishing school in Nazi Germany. Rachel Johnson, sister of the London mayor, interviewed several for her most recent book. She told SPIEGEL ONLINE about Britain’s enthusiasm for Hitler’s Reich.” The British press has praised the book for being both entertaining and historically accurate.Johnson, who is the sister of Continue reading Nostalgia: Orwell, Koestler, Kafka, Hollywood & Hitler, Lidice from Sasha Rolde on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
Freud’s Baby, Fliess’s Maybe
Click Here to Read: Freud’s Baby, Fliess’s Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the Invention of Oedipus by Daniel Boyarin.
This article originally appeared as: Daniel Boyarin, (1995). Freud’s Baby, Fliess’s Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-Semetism, and the Invention of Oedipus. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies April 1995 2 (1 and 2) : 115-147; doi:10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-115 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Dad’s Stress Could Affect Offspring Through Epigenetic Changes To Sperm, Mouse Study Shows
Getting Started With Czech-Jewish Genealogy
Secrets
Faking It in China
Freud & Ferenczi
Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes brought to the screen
The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness
Click Here to Read: The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness By Ethan Watters on the Pacific Standard website on June 3, 2013 .
In the 1880s, women by the tens of thousands displayed the distinctive signs of hysteria: convulsive fits, facial tics, spinal irritation, sensitivity to touch, leg paralysis. (ILLUSTRATION: MICHELLE THOMPSON)